Annotation:Red Steer

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RED STEER. AKA and see "Brown's Dream (1),” “John Brown’s Dream." Old-Time, Breakdown. GDgd tuning (fiddle). From the playing of fiddler John Dykes, of the Kingsport, Tennessee, area, leader of the Dykes Magic City trio. The tune as a member of the “John Brown’s Dream” family of tunes. Richard Blaustein sees similarities in the first strain with Dykes's “Callahan Reel” and a tune called “Boatman”; and in the second strain with “Paddy Won't You Drink Some Good Old Cider.”

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Recorded sources: Old Homestead OHCS 191, "Dykes Magic City Trio" (Eastern Tenn.) {originally recorded on a Brunswick 78, 1927}.

See also listing at:
Hear the Dykes' Magic City Trio's 1927 recording at Honking Duck [1]

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